The second part of Croce’s philosophy of the spirit, readable on its own, examines practical activity: the will, its relation to knowledge, freedom, the economic form of action and the ethical form. Croce engages Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and the utilitarians as he argues that economics and morality are distinct moments of a single active spirit.
A central work of Italian idealism, in Douglas Ainslie’s translation. Download the free EPUB.